{"title":"Of suicide machines, euthanasia legislation, and the health care crisis.","authors":"D R Schanker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 180","pages":"9-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21005301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pharmaceutical Access and Prudent Purchasing Act of 1990: Federal law shifts the duty to warn from the physician to the pharmacist.","authors":"M J Holleran","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 178","pages":"9-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A competitive analysis of most favored nations clauses in contracts between health care providers and insurers.","authors":"A Celnicker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A most favored nations (MFN) clause is a contractual agreement between a buyer and a seller stating that the price paid by the buyer will be at least as low as the price paid by other buyers who purchase the same commodities from the seller. During the past decade the anticompetitive impact of MFN clauses in the health care industry has been challenged under federal antitrust laws. The cases have considered MFN clauses included in contracts between large third-party payers, specifically Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) plans, and providers of health care. The clauses prohibit providers from selling their medical services to BCBS's competitors at a price lower than the price at which they sell to BCBS. The cases have challenged these clauses on the grounds that they limit selective discounting to the competitors thereby making it difficult for the competitors to attract subscribers from dominant BCBS plans by lowering premiums. In this Article, Professor Celnicker asserts that MFN clauses have significant anticompetitive potential. The Article examines the competitive consequences of MFN clauses used in the health care industry. The Article's analysis draws heavily from the economic criticisms of the Robinson-Patman Act, which prohibits a seller from discriminating in price between customers in certain circumstances. The Article concludes that in certain circumstances, MFN clauses discourage discounting, facilitate oligopolistic pricing, and deter entry or expansion by more efficient distribution systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 154","pages":"7-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20987318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital medical staff privilege issues: \"brother's keeper\" revisited.","authors":"W M Copeland, P E Brown","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 153","pages":"7-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20986904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A cost containment malpractice defense: implications for the standard of care and for indigent patients.","authors":"L C Giordani","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 152","pages":"7-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20986630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital liability for defamation of character during the peer review process: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may cost me my job.","authors":"J Oliverio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 151","pages":"7-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20986063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liability without fault and the AIDS plague compel a new approach to cases of transfusion-transmitted disease.","authors":"A F Baker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 150","pages":"7-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20982941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health-care professionals with AIDS: the risk of transmission balanced against the interests of professionals and institutions.","authors":"G C Keyes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 148","pages":"7-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21041912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antitrust treatment of hospital mergers.","authors":"R D Blair, J M Fesmire","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 147","pages":"7-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20982386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulating physician investment and referral behavior in the competitive health care marketplace of the '90s--an argument for decentralization.","authors":"K A King","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Congress regulates the investment and referral practices of physicians through the federal Anti-Fraud and Abuse statute. The Anti-Fraud and Abuse statute, however, limits the ability of physicians to adapt their investment and referral practices to an increasingly competitive health care industry. In order to restrict fraudulent practices without restricting competition, the authority to regulate physician investment and referral practices should be returned to the states, who can recognize and exempt beneficial competitive practices from the reach of the applicable state statutes.</p>","PeriodicalId":79729,"journal":{"name":"Specialty law digest. Health care (Monthly)","volume":" 146","pages":"7-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20983031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}